In this period of craziness in our Republic, everyone wants everything for free. Hard work has gone out the window and earning your way up is thought of as crazy. Many young conservatives should find plenty of empty jobs as folks like this should be fired, maybe that will help them to understand that nothing is free.

Protesters Scream for $15/Hour… Suddenly a Reporter Slaps Them Down With Truth

The so-called “fight for 15” — the movement to raise America’s minimum wage to $15 an hour — might as well be called the “fight for unemployment” or the “fight for no jobs,” since that’s pretty much what it does.

However, there has never been any shortage of people willing to convince themselves that 300 years of applied economics either simply don’t exist or can be abrogated at the ballot box. This includes fast food workers in Southfield, Michigan, who recently rallied outside City Hall for the hallowed minimum wage of $15.

Southfield is in the Detroit metro area — a corner of our nation which, as I’m sure you know, is flush with cash and opportunity to make this happen.

Even though Michigan’s minimum wage is being increased to $9.25, activists think that fast food restaurants in a city adjacent to a metropolis that resembles Belgrade circa 1994 can somehow afford $6 an hour above the state minimum.

“When we cry out for elected officials to stand with us, here you have the city of Southfield’s mayor, Mayor (Ken) Siver, standing with us saying, ‘You all deserve $15 an hour and a union,’ and this is why we’re here today,” event organizer Pastor W.J. Rideout told WJBK-TV.

“We’re going all over to let elected officials know that if you do not stand with the 54,000 workers, that we’re not going to stand with you at the polls.”

However, a reporter with WJBK, Roop Raj, had an interesting question for one of the protesters. He noted that many paramedics don’t earn $15 an hour, and asked them why they thought they should be earning more than a paramedic.

“Because we do too much,” Lekecha Jackson said. “We do more than we get paid.”

I do hate to break it to Lekecha and her fellow fast food workers, but she’s remunerated fairly for what she gets paid to do. She does a job that requires significant (although not exactly exigent) levels of physical work to make up for the fact that it requires little training, experience, knowledge or talent.

There are plenty of people who can do fast food jobs. Most Americans, in fact, could do fast food jobs. With that level of competition, especially in a geographic area that’s economically depressed, there isn’t going to be a generous salary for fast food positions unless they add a great deal of value to the organizations.

Unfortunately, they don’t. We’ve run numerous stories about how most of these jobs can be done through automation — and more cheaply, if labor costs were to rise. Or, most of these fast food outlets can just schedule fewer people and offer them fewer hours, if worst came to worst.

So, keep up the “fight for 15,” fast food workers of Southfield — but don’t be surprised if you find out that all you’re fighting for is the elimination of your own job.

Without support from a divided Kentucky Legislature, Beshear created a state-run ObamaCare exchange and opted in to ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid to working-age adults with no kids and no disabilities.

Praising Beshear during his 2014 State of the Union speech, President Obama said the governor was “like a man possessed” when it came to implementing ObamaCare — regardless of opposition from state legislators.

Unfortunately for Obama and fans of his unpopular health insurance law, Beshear’s unilateral actions leave the state’s two biggest pro-ObamaCare decisions open to reversal from Bevin.

Bevin won the Republican primary after promising to roll back ObamaCare expansion. He aims to shut down Kynect — the state’s ObamaCare exchange — and direct Kentuckians to the federal exchange by the end of 2016.

U.S. carries out Syria strike targeting ‘Jihadi John’

WASHINGTONThe U.S. military has carried out an air strike in Syria targeting Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John” who participated in gruesome videos showing the killings of Western hostages, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

The United States was still assessing the effectiveness of the strike, which took place around the city of Raqqa, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

GOP Rep. Gohmert Says, “Puts Gays On An Island…” But It’s the NEXT Part That Some Say Goes Too Far

House Rep. Louie Gohmert took a brave stand to defend marriage as a union between one man and one woman during a speech he made at the Liberty University convocation in late October.

While most lean on religious reasons to defend traditional marriage, the Texas Republican decided to play along with liberals and suggest a “totally secular approach” that would scientifically prove that marriage between a man and woman is the natural way.

“I took some grief recently,” Gohmert stated. “I was being interviewed on C-SPAN, in their private interview early and she (the host) was asking me questions, and it always lights up our phone when I talk about the Bible or anything about things Christians believe.”

So that’s when Gohmert decided to take the conversation to another level: “I said, let’s just take a totally secular approach to this.”

What Gohmert suggested is making liberals furious. Because what he said he is completely true, and there isn’t an argument that can refute the probable outcome of what he proposed.

“Congress is good about having studies,” he continued. “How about if we take four heterosexual couples and put them on an island where they have everything they need to live and exist, and we take four couples of just men and put them on an island where they have all they need to survive, and then let’s take four couples of just women and put them on an island.”

Gohmert has built a reputation and a career in Congress fighting federal overreach, but he’s just as adept at fighting the overreach of liberals on social issues, too.

Way to go, Rep. Gohmert, for giving the liberals exactly what they claimed to want: a reasoning behind defending traditional marriage that was not faith-based. Well, they certainly got what they asked for.

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What a concept, cleaning house, but that usually means throwing out the garbage. One could speculate if Paul Ryan will make any positive, conservative changes, who knows? It will be interesting to see if anything really does change or if it isn’t just smoke to look like he is doing something.

Paul Ryan Cleaning House, To Dump Committee Chairs

Paul Ryan took on the role of Speaker of the House last month promising to rework the House Republican Steering Committee before Thanksgiving and is doing just that taking steps to restructure the panel and dump committee chairs, Politico reports.

In what will be the biggest restructuring of internal GOP policy so far in his tenure, Ryan kick-started the changes by impaneling eight lawmakers. And although plans are not finalized, lawmakers have discussed a two-part plan to in an effort to change the membership of the committee.

Politico states that “during the current Congress, top committee chairmen would be removed from the panel and replaced with members elected by the House Republican Conference” and “in the next Congress, the GOP would add additional regional representatives to the committee.”

Lawmakers involved in the talks declined to comment on the confidential plans, but the potential changes would help decentralized power in the house. (Read More)